When you have multiple accounts of a story 100 years after the fact there are bound to be some discrephencies. That means they are third or fourth parties to the story.contradictory stories? what fundemental contradictions are you talking about which relate remotly to their motivation for writing their stories down?
There are no Roman records. There is a wealth of christian records (duh! they would be the ones to invent the man). You are incorrect in your pluralization of "Jews;" instead there is but one Jewish record of Jesus. It is a footnote in a history of the Jews (title escapes me now) about a small cult within the Jewish community. None of this proves that he existed. We know that Caesar existed because of the very thorough records of the Romans. Meticulous + agreement in all sources=truth. None of the Jesus myths have any of that equation.made person up? Jesus is recorded by christians, Romans, and Jews.
What if I told one person and they believed in my imaginary friend. Then they told others until it became a cult. Wouldn't you say that might take 70-100 years before it caught on?the probability of these people [authors] all having the same imaginary friend?
I think that a Jesus did exist. I do not think this person could cast magic, and we know for sure that if he did exist he never had more than 15 followers. He was probably the result of a marital affair. The only thing that he did that is plausable is knocking over a money changers table and being executed.